InfoCoBuild

Learn Through Videos: Engineering

This is a collection of links to educational videos related to engineers, inventors, engineering and technology, which are made for a general audience. The videos listed in this collection cover a variety of topics in engineering and technology. They explore the engineering feats accomplished by some of the great civilizations in history; tell the history of electronic digital computers; look at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines; deal with industrial design, product design, and our relationship with the manufactured objects that surround us; and explore the scientific breakthroughs and future technologies that will transform our lives.

STEM Concept Videos
The STEM Concept Videos are designed to help students learn a pivotal concept in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM).

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
This is a documentary series narrated by Stephen Hawking, globally exploring the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming our lives in the 21st century.

Futurescape with James Woods
This is a six-part Science Channel documentary series presented by James Woods, unveiling what the future will look like.

Visions of the Future
This is a documentary series presented by a theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, exploring cutting edge technologies related to computer science, biology and quantum theory.

Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible
This is a documentary series presented by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, exploring the world of the seemingly impossible.

Inventions that Changed the World
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Jeremy Clarkson, looking at some of the inventions that helped to shape the modern world.

Secret Life of Machines
This is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery.

The Ascent of Man
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Jacob Bronowski, looking at human history through scientific and technological achievements from prehistoric era to the mid-20th century.

Engineering an Empire
This is a History Channel documentary series hosted by Peter Weller, exploring the engineering feats accomplished by some of the great civilizations in history.

Ancient Megastructures
This is a National Geographic documentary series discovering the secrets of revolutionary structures in ancient megastructures.

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
This is a seven-part BBC documentary miniseries examining seven epic engineering feats of the Industrial age.

Big, Bigger, Biggest
This is a four-part documentary series exploring the engineering breakthroughs behind the world's biggest structures - Burj Dubai, USS Nimitz, Japan's Akashi Bridge, and London Heathrow Airport.

James Burke's Connections
This is a ten-part documentary series presented by science historian James Burke, exploring the various paths of how our modern technological world came into existence.

Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections
This is a documentary series presented by Richard Hammond, looking at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines.

Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
This is a BBC documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.